de-CRIMPing

Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 7, 2015 at 01:13 PM

I was thinking what to call the process when you decide to let go off some of the ‘fruits’ of your CRIMPing: de-CRIMPing or un-CRIMPing?

This is a new experience for me. It came about because my 5-yr old PC has just died and I needed to reinstall my essential software quickly onto my new Win laptop I got as my replacement machine. And it being all new and shiny (and a laptop), there is a disincentive to clutter it with old software that I no longer use (or never got into).

So this is a gentle way of ‘disposing’, as they just fall away, rather than being thrown away (and I still have the installer files and the licences if I ever change my mind).

I still quite like and appreciate some of the software that didn’t make it through. It seems that in most cases they are the casualty of having been replaced by a competitor. There is just no need to have 2 or 3 of the same software in the very same category and with overlapping functionality holding the same data.

I guess this kind of hardware or OS failure is a natural remedy for setting off a recovery phase in the life of a CRIMPer…